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Andesipolis whartoni Whitfield & Choi 2004

Description

Andesipolis whartoni Whitfield & Choi 2004

Diagnosis. Body color mostly brown with orange-brown pronotum, scutellum and mesopleuron; fore wing stigma narrow, more than 4x longer than broad; propodeum and first metasomal tergite mostly smooth, areola, cross bridge and median carina on propodeum absent; tarsal claw with distinct basal lobe; ovipositor very long, about 2x longer than hind tibia, and curved upward.

Male. Similar to female in most diagnostic characters except the basal lobe on hind tarsal claw absent.

Material examined: 1♂ CHILE: Conguillio Nat. Park, Cautín 1,150 m. 4.ii.1988, Araucania, Nothofagus s.s., L. Masner col. (CNC)

Distribution. Chile, south of Santiago.

Notes

Published as part of Mitio, Shimbori Eduardo, Souza, Souza-Gessner Carolina Da Silva, Maria, Penteado-Dias Angelica & Richard, Shaw Scott, 2017, A revision of the genus Andesipolis (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Mesostoinae) and redefinition of the subfamily Mesostoinae, pp. 101-152 in Zootaxa 4216 (2) on page 148, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.230717

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CNC
Event date
1988-02-04
Verbatim event date
1988-02-04
Scientific name authorship
Whitfield & Choi
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Braconidae
Genus
Andesipolis
Species
whartoni
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Andesipolis whartoni Whitfield, 2004 sec. Mitio, Souza, Maria & Richard, 2017

References

  • Whitfield, J. B., Choi, W. Y. & Suh, K. I. (2004) Andesipolis, a puzzling new genus of cyclostome Braconidae (Hymenoptera) from the Chilean Andes, with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa, 438, 1 - 15.